VAMPIRE SITTER
14. Togetherness

The sound of each book that opens. Because of that voice, Hina's deep sleep woke up. He looked up slowly, before reflexively waking up in surprise to find Shun sitting on the bedside chair.

"What are you doing here?" Am I dreaming now?

The question still made Shun look calm opening each book sheet on his lap.

"I usually come to the dreams of evil humans to suck their bitter blood," Shun confided in the book. "Do you know why I spend my time reading books here?"

"Eitherway. I don't know either, why are you here?" hina protest.

Shun looked at Hina's face blatantly. It made Hina cleared her throat while turning her face in the other direction due to the wrong behavior.

"Go away. Don't interrupt my sleep," he kicked it out.

"You haven't answered my question."

"What questions?"

"About you being the child's mother" Shun said casually. But different from Hina who is now coughed because of her own saliva.

"Mr Shun, if you want to tell me to keep Yuki like my own son, I will."

"I mean you're being her mother, not a nanny."

"You mean like you and me getting married, and then I'm gonna be stepmom-"

"Oh. You want to marry me?" chirp Shun leaned on his feet. "alright. We can do it tomorrow."

Hina gawked inexhaustibly. "You kidding? If you marry me just so that Yuki has a mother, I will reject her firmly! You're just using me. Marriage between two people must be based on love!"

"Love," muttered Shun thinking hard. "If I love you, will you marry me? To be the boy's mother?"

His name is Yuki and he's your son, Shunji!

"Not necessarily!" yelled Hina stammering on her bed. "While you love me... I don't necessarily love you."

"Then how do you fall in love with me, hmm?" Shun stared at her intensely with a researching highlight that made Hina even more clumsy.

"Is there a man more handsome than me who makes you fall in love?" shun continued like introgating.

"I-I don't know. You're getting slacker, Mr. Shun. Are you drunk because most people drink human blood in dreams?"

"That guy, huh?" shun guessed slightly tilted his head to more and more clearly observe Hina's response.

"Who do you mean?"

"The guy at the toy store. You like it, don't you?"

"No!" elak Hina glanced in the other direction.

The answer made Shun mangosteen then rose from his seat.

"alright. It's decided," he said.

"What has been decided?"

Shun looked down upon Hina's strange gaze. "To be a mother, you want me to marry you. But you want us to fall in love first, but I'm blocked by the guy you like. So I decided to try harder to turn your heart to me. You understand now?"

"What's wrong with you?" Hina hugged her goosebumps body. "You suddenly care about Yuki. You were cold to her yesterday."

"Isn't this also because of you?"

"Me?" Hina pointed at herself confusedly.

"I remember what my late wife said before she left."

He's totally nuts!

"Hey, can I confirm one thing before leaving? This was bothering me right now," Shun's successful pinta created a deep frown on Hina's forehead.

"Don't fuck around! L'm... I'm gonna get up and yell for Yuki!" threaten Hina hugged herself.

Shun moved closer to his feet on the bed. He stretched out one hand to grip Hina's neck until her thumb gently stroked the woman's neck skin.

"You.." muttered Shun looking at Hina's face. "Did you know your smell keeps torturing vampires like me?"

Hina was speechless, as if hypnotized to reply to the gentle highlight of Shun's blue hazel.

"I want to breathe it in before I go."

Before returning to protest, Shun had already brushed Hina's hair back. His body was already bent with a face stuck to the niche of Hina's neck, inhaling deeply the sweet fragrance she emitted.

Hina froze, feeling a warm gust of Shun's lips and nose stuck to the skin of her neck. He was afraid that Shun would bite him in a moment.

"Hina?"

Yuki's voice calling made Hina wake up from the dream. He spread his gaze around before looking at Yuki who was standing at the door.

"Y-yes? What was? Is there something?" tanya Hina stuttered with her hands stroking her neck.

"Are you having a bad dream?"

"No. Of course not," Hina replied quickly. "Did you have a bad dream of eating it you woke up from your sleep, Yuki?"

"I woke up worrying about you. Can I sleep here with you?"

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"Hina, can we play to that place again?" yuki asked which made Hina disperse the daydream.

"Y-yes? What do you mean place?"

Yuki hugged the ball he had been playing and said, "A place with a lot of games! I want to ride that spinning cage again."

"Ah, do you mean a reanglala?" Hina thought for a moment. "Should we go there? But... We need to ask your father for permission."

"We're both alone. Dad won't like it," persuaded Yuki to tug at Hina's hand to get them out of there.

"Who do I say I don't like?" cetus Shun was standing with his hands against the guardrail upstairs.

"Who do you dare to control what I like and don't like?" he continued with a gaze so coldly directed at Yuki.

Hina looked back and forth seeing the tension between the two. He became uncomfortable because he had to be trapped and even mediated between father and son.

"Hina, let's just go!" insist Yuki again tugging Hina's hand to immediately leave from there.

As a result, Hina took both Yuki and Shun away with her rather than the two of them re-arguing with just through the glare of her eyes. Hina is determined to bring closer the relationship between Yuki and Shun so as not to heat up again.

But it still creates tension among those who do not want to talk to each other or call each other's names. Hina again felt to be a useless mosquito repellent there.

"Master Shun, stop!" hina's word makes Shun step on the brakes.

"Why?"

"Let's get out!" take Hina who has removed her seat belt. "Didn't you not have a photo together once in a hundred years of life?"

Shun turned his head outside the window, staring lazily at a photo studio not far from where he stopped.

"No need," said Shun to drive his car again. Yet Hina held his hand and threw a hopeful sparkling gaze like a cat.

"Come on. It's still afternoon. To the amusement park is more exciting when a lot of people and it's night," he persuaded.

Finally, Hina makes Shun and Yuki go into the photo studio between unwillingly. They stood at a distance, dodging each other even far apart.

"Can't you guys get close? The space in the middle is still empty" Hina said, standing next to the photographer to observe.

"Are you sure they're father and son?" the photographer was doubtful.

"Yes. It looks like a cold war, but they are actually full of love" whispered Hina chuckling.

"Hina, I want to be with you. I don't want to be here" Yuki's whining like crying.

"You go home if you don't want to" Shun turned away without mercy.

"Hey, looks like you should come too. Stand between the two of them so as not to be empty," the photographer said, slightly encouraging Hina.

Hina breathed a tired breath. He was forced to stand in the middle of them, but it turned out that it managed to make Yuki approach to hold his hand.

"alright. Get ready!" the photographer wanted to take aim.

Hina turned her head to Shun who turned her face the other way with a considerable distance from her. Hina felt angry again. He pulled Shun's empty hand to stand closer next to him.

Now, both of Hina's hands were filled holding both Shun and Yuki. As Hina faced forward to smile at the camera, Yuki and Shun simultaneously turned to look at Hina.

Czechoslovakia!

A single photo was created, showing Hina's happy smile forward, Yuki's complaining amazed face looking at Hina beside her, and Shun's mysterious look that slightly lowered his head while observing Hina's warm smile.